Geordie accent

Newcastle to South Shields is pretty consistent. Gateshead definitely has a noticeable variation and once you’re into County Durham it’s basically a different language

the accents are similar across the north east buy they are definitely different

There can be subtle differences but if you’re not from the area I think they’d be very hard to notice.

Honestly I think even the accent change between byker and benwell is obvious

Then there's my Scottish -benwell abomination accent

Agree with previous comment …anyone not from north east can’t tell the difference. Anyone from it can instantly tell as it’s very different

Try Ashington. Totally different to Newcastle.

The accent changes every few miles. It's subtle but definitely a thing. Even a few slang terms as well as pronunciations change every now and then too.

For example. Go to South Shields and ask someone native to that town to say 'food' and you'll instantly be able to tell the difference. They'll pronounce it 'fud'

As an Aussie I notice different accents but can't work out which is which. Constantly asking my Geordie wife where in Newcastle/Gateshead that type of Geordie accent comes from but she hasn't a clue. Living in Australia doesn't help ha ha

West end and east end Newcastle talk a bit different.

I lived both areas for years family on both sides to. It is noticeable to a native.

Outsiders wouldn’t tell

I think there's less of a difference now than there used to be. People used to barely leave their village, but now with ease of transport, couple being from different areas and work being fairly centralized, a lot more of it is blended. but there's still subtle differences

I reckon there’s a broad North East accent that sounds the same to people from elsewhere, but natives can pick up on the subtle differences as you move south

Historian Dan Jackson posits something called the “Beetroot Line” just south of Boldon, where you start to notice real differences in accent. Specially in “EE” and “OO” sounds

https://twitter.com/northumbriana/status/1003723780500475906?lang=en

When you are out of the area, Geordie accents are more obvious. I was in the West Midlands a few months ago and immediately picked out a Geordie accent in a room. Not only that, but I thought it was an accent that was very close to mine. I live in Gateshead and it transpired that the other person did too.

Ashington has a very peculiar and wonderfully strong accent - where someone from Newcastle may say ‘po-em’ for poem, it would be ‘perm’ in Ashington. Here’s a canny Ashington accent translator, although some of the examples are stretching it a bit:

http://moam.github.io/2014/03/28/ashington-translator.html

And in Sunderland ‘curry’ is pronounced as ‘kerry’. Strange people.